12 Wines of Christmas: Jon Bonné’s annual 12 Wines of Christmas is : part gift guide, part road map to holiday cheer, all fun. It’s guaranteed to cover all

Holidays: Seafood gets lost in the radar around this time of year, overshadowed by lambs and turkeys. Local fish aren’t aplenty in December, but shellfish are. Here’s a guide to a big shellfish centerpiece.

Holidays: Don’t forget the vegetables when it comes to your holiday menus. Here are a bunch of easy recipes for creative side dishes using broccolini, radicchio and more.

Holidays: What to do with all those leftover chunks of panettone, challah and brioche? Bread pudding. Boom.

Taster’s Choice: In a special holiday-themed Taster’s Choice episode, our panel of blind taste testers choose the best store-bought panettone.

California Local: Joyce Goldstein profiles Bi-Rite Market’s Sam Mogannam, who runs his grocery store from a chef point-of-view. That’s because he is a chef:

“When I started cooking in ’86, it was at the height of California cuisine. The food was simple. It had a focus on ingredients and a reverence for the back-to-the-land movement,” he says. “The early ’90s were more of a hodgepodge; it was the age of the squeeze bottle, the sprinkles and the swirls. And too many ingredients” …. His heart was set on putting a restaurant in the [Bi-Rite Market] space, but his parents tried to dissuade him because they had seen how hard he worked when he had his restaurant … Mogannam finally acquiesced to his parents’ wishes. But if he was going to run a market, he would do it his way. He would run it like a restaurant.